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Monday, February 10, 2014

Trust in the Lord

Hola Familia!Okay this week was literally so great! The best week in my mission sofar. So first of all we went to someone´s lot in the middleof the jungle for p-day. We went with our whole zone with some membersand while the members started cooking lunch we decided to go exploringin the Jungle. We are all like climbing through all of these trees andjumping over logs and little rivers and my zone leader was in frontcutting a pathway with a machete… it was super funny. We stopped for asecond to take a break and we were all talking and we looked down andour feet and legs were covered in ants. Everyone just startedscreaming and we started running back through the jungle as fast as wecould. Just picture 10 white missionaries running and screamingthrough the jungle…. It was really hilarious. After that we atechicken and yucca on palm tree leaves…. With our hands. No plates,just leaves haha it was super funny. So this week we were workingsuper hard to find new people and have people come to church. The lastcouple of weeks we have only had a couple of people in church and itis super hard. We went to all of our lessons with members and we diddivisions and we got lots of good references. When we came to churchwe had 12 people in church! We were so happy and excited. Soheavenly father knew that I couldn´t live without a mom so he sent mea mom here in Iquitos. Her name is Hna. Lulù and she does everythingfor us missionaries. She cooks and washes the clothes for the Eldersand she does anything we need her to do. She took care of me when Iwas sick with Dengue. She is amazing and she introduced me to herbrother and his wife and they are not members and they came to church. We went and visited them after church and they told us thatthey want to have more unity in their family and live the way that Godwants them to live. It was such and awesome lesson and they are goingto get baptized and married Their wedding is the 24th of this monthand they are getting baptized. My companion and I were superexcited…. I have no idea how to plan a wedding in two weeks but I amgoing to learn! We have some really awesome families right now thatare progressing and attending church and I have really been able tosee how much the Lord has been helping us. This area is difficult butwe have been working hard and the Lord is leading us and guiding us ineverything we do. I am so grateful to be here on his errand to bringthese wonderful families to the knowledge of the gospel. It is thegreatest opportunity I have ever been given. Just pray that we canget everything organized for this wedding. I love you all, have anawesome week!Love,Your favorite jungle missionary